Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] would give [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not thought likely that this would give rise to any greater risk of breach of confidentiality of clients ' affairs than that involved with the rest of the staff . |
| 2 | They each believed that what they were doing was vital for the betterment of the world as each saw it and neither would give way to the other , or defer in any way to the other 's claimed priority in attention , preference or responsibility . |
| 3 | He forbade the Electricity Board to order voltage reductions , since this would give comfort to the NUM leadership . |
| 4 | Furthermore it would never purchase items brought up in such a way , as this would give support to these operations . |
| 5 | Societies in which people saw gold as precious would give gold as a gift to a loved person , and in our culture money is a substitute for gold , which is , in turn , a symbolic substitution for the first gift — faeces . |